Posts Tagged: 1948 War
Rewriting the History of Israel’s 1948 War
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a great artist. But that doesn’t mean that every world leader he painted deserves our admiration -- nor should we assume...
The Economist Keeps Making Up Facts to Demonize Israel
Here is the beginning of a new Economist article: BLESSED are the meek. While Israel's 1.4m Muslim citizens vociferously champ for the right to return to the...
Mass Graves in Jaffa – but Who Killed Them?
Over the past couple of days the Arab media have been reporting on the discovery of mass graves of Arabs in Jaffa. The Al Aqsa Foundation...
Naqba — Commemorating a Self-Inflicted Tragedy
Today, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over the years, mark what they call the naqba (Arabic for catastrophe). It was on...
Avigdor Lieberman: Israeli Arabs Who Mourn Israel Founding Should be PA Citizens
Jerusalem Post - Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday harshly criticized Israeli Arabs who mourned the founding of Israel on Independence...
The Historical Revisionism of ‘The Great Book Robbery’
'The Great Book Robbery' (watch here), a documentary that recently screened on a number of US college campuses, is the latest attempt by...
Palestinian Projections and the Workings of Jew-Hatred
The indispensable PMW has just published a translation of an article in Ma'an, the Palestinian news agency publication. PMW emphasizes the vicious anti-Semitism of the piece...
True Liberal Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Enthymeme
In rhetoric, an enthymeme is an argument that contains an unarticulated premise. Commonly this is because the conversation is among a group of people with...
The Israeli/Arab Conflict – Will This Ever End?
A wise but pragmatic Israeli answered this way: "No, this is not going to end in the near future. Israel needs to be prepared...